World Cities in a World-System

by Edited by Paul L. Knox , Peter J. Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780521484701
• ISBN10: 0521484707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Seventeen essays by leading researchers in the area of world cities and the economic factors.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Part 1 Introduction: world city, hypothesis and context
World cities in a world-system	3	(18)
Paul L. Knox
Where we stand: a decade of world city research	21	(27)
John Friedmann
World cities and territorial states: the rise and fall of their mutuality	48	(15)
Peter J. Taylor
On concentration and centrality in the global city	63	(16)
Saskia Sassen
Part 2 Cities in systems
Cities in global matrics: toward mapping the world-system's city system	79	(19)
David A. Smith
Michael Timberlake
World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy: the case of the United States	98	(17)
Donald Lyons
Scott Salmon
Transport and the world city paradigm	115	(17)
David J. Keeling
The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery	132	(24)
David Simon
Global logics in the Caribbean city system: the case of Miami	156	(15)
Ramon Grosfoguel
Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses	171	(21)
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod
'Going global' in the semi-periphery: world cities as political projects. The case of Toronto	192	(23)
Graham Todd
Part 3 Politics and policy in world cities: theory and practice
Re-presenting world cities: cultural theory/social practice	215	(17)
Anthony D. King
Theorizing the global-local connection	232	(17)
Robert A. Beauregard
The disappearance of world cities and the globalization of local politics	249	(18)
Michael Peter Smith
World cities and global communities: the muncipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities	267	(13)
Andrew Kirby
Sallie Marston
Kenneth Seasholes
The environmental problemetic in world cities	280	(18)
Roger Keil
The successful management and administration of world cities: mission impossible?	298	(19)
Peter M. Ward
Appendix: the world city hypothesis	317	(15)
John Friedmann
Index	332